Tonight a close friend of mine drove my attention to the open ebook standard and the conference he recently attended to. This make it the issue on standards a very important part to create an opportunity for both OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument to have transformations for this open format.

 Documents and books are something that have similar needs, they need to be open formats, they need to be accesable and human readable. The ebook specs are provided on their site and also have an awesome way to process information.

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Hi recently I had a conversation with a fellow developer and talk about ODF popularity. The debate centralized between the Open source agenda and the open standard agenda and where it cross.

The idea of empowering ODF across technologies and systems can sometimes be challenging to absorbed by open source people (including myself). 

So an interesting challenging was brought up. Why not have an ODF Viewer in microsoft technology. This means VB and ActiveX. This will be as tactical as having a ODF plugin for Microsoft office.

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Being a big proposer of ODF I think I should be able to get an account on the official site. So far there has been a rich ammount of ODF and related topics. So here is who I am..

My name is Alexandro Colorado, lead of OpenOffice.org and member of the OpenDocument Fellowship. I also been a fierce defender of Open Source technology.
Having this blog I wil put some inf in regard to the OpenDocument future.